Saturday, January 26, 2013

For Love of "Cake"


I've had a hard time getting started creatively this year. I wasn't sure what I wanted to work on besides sewing. I signed up for two Block of the Month classes. Like I needed two! I am also taking some Craftsy classes to get me back into making clothes. But I needed something related to paper. I love cutting and gluing too much !  I stumbled upon this Alpha Challenge at The Craft Barn and I knew right away it would be fun for me to work on this year.

We're making an altered dictionary and I had the perfect tattered dictionary for the project. Since it is already a wreck I don't mind working in it.
Every two weeks a new challenge will be posted. They started with the letter "V" but I came in late so I started with last week's letter, "C." They are not going in alphabetical order so you can't go ahead of everyone.

I looked through the Cs and saw the word "cake" which is my favorite food so it was the perfect place to start.

I gessoed over the page but left the "cake" definition uncovered. It is split between the two columns. I covered that with some thin acrylic paint and then cut out some vintage pictures of cake. The woman is also from a vintage magazine.

I also added some little pieces of the index from an old cookbook where all the cakes were listed.


Don't you feel like having a slice now?  Great! I'll join you!

Here is the letter "C" challenge  if you would like to join in or to see what everyone else created. Don't worry if you don't have a dictionary you can alter. There are other ways to do the Alpha Challenge.

Now I need to do the letter "V" so I'll be caught up with everyone.

15 comments:

  1. this looks like a lot of fun Susan! Glad you got some of your artsy "mojo" back :). Look forward to seeing more. J

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  2. LOL, this is too fun!!! LOVE the use of the magazine pictures--what a fabulous page! If you have time, I'd love for you to play along with our challenges at Inkspirational and Technique Time Tuesday! :) HUGS!

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  3. Well, yum! This is a fun project, and I like the page you did.

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  4. Oh, great word choice! You turned it into a fun page. Now I'm hungry for a piece of cake.

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  5. Mmmmmmmm great page we all love Cake!

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  6. YUM!!!!! I love cake and would eat lots of it if I could stay as slim as your girl on your page :D Lovely work. Thank you for joining in with us over at The Craft Barn x

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  7. Knowing you, I imagine that "cake" is probably your one of your very favorite words in the entire dictionary. So, it's appropriate that this should be the first page you do. I love your vintage photos and use of a cookbook index! (My favorite word is also a "c" word, "chocolate". Let me know when you're baking a chocolate cake, and I'll be over to help you enjoy it!)

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  8. Love the graphic look of your pages - great word to choose!!

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  9. Yummy page Susan, I love you collage. Lol what a word to pick! Mmmmm got my tastebuds going I can tell you!!
    Hugs x

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  10. Beautiful retro pages Susan...fab images...just love that colour combo..and cake!!

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  11. LOL, we all love *C*ake, don't week. Great collage.
    Welcome to the Alpha Challenge and thanks for playing with us at the Craft Barn
    Izzy

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  12. What a great CAKE page, can't wait to see your "V" one now. Thanks for visiting my page - BJ

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  13. What a fun page, it made my LOL. I love how you've left the recipe unpainted x

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